General view of Craig House from grounds
BL 13244
Description General view of Craig House from grounds
Date 1895
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 13244
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Craighouse Mental Asylum, Craighouse Road, Edinburgh (latterly the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and presently part of Napier University) Craighouse Mental Asylum, a huge chateau designed by the architect, Sydney Mitchell, was built in 1889-94 as new hospital premises for the Royal Edinburgh Asylum in an imposing setting on the north slope of Easter Craiglockhart Hill. Harry Bedford Lemere was commissioned to photograph the asylum in 1895. This complex of buildings, in red sandstone with warm yellow facings, stands in 60 acres of pleasant woodland on what has been described as 'the most beautiful site in Edinburgh'. The skyline is dominated by the hospital's square, 30m-high tower, one of Edinburgh's prominent landmarks. The layout was planned by Dr Thomas Clouston, physician superintendent of the original Royal Edinburgh Asylum in Morningside. Clouston, concerned by the inadequate facilities available for patients, planned Craighouse as a home, rather than an asylum, for the treatment of patients' physical and mental needs. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 26
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